Here’s the latest good press about the Family Folk Machine from the Cedar Rapids Gazette! Read more

It’s time to get together for some community singing!

Join us this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 for our monthly all-request sing-along. Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the cozy atmosphere. Read more

Join us September 26, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., for our video-release party! We’ll premiere the video at the Senior Center and then parade down to Chauncey Swan Park for refreshments, games, and singing.

It’s time to get together for some community singing!

Join us this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 for our monthly all-request sing-along. Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the cozy atmosphere. Read more

Rehearsals for “The Traveling Kind” start this Sunday! I am so excited to see our new/old Folk Machine reassemble. It’s really fun for me to put together arrangements of our songs while thinking about what the notes are going to mean once real people are singing them. Read more

This article by Jean Littlejohn appeared in the Press Citizen on Monday, August 10, 2015.

The Family Folk Machine starts rehearsals on August 23 for our fall session, “The Traveling Kind.” Read more

Come by the Longfellow neighborhood on Saturday, June 20, to enjoy the Front Porch Music Festival! The Family Folk Machine will lead a sing-along at 426 Grant Street at 3:30. (Come at 3:00 to hear the Skipperlings!) Check out this explanatory story, which includes the festival line-up, from Little Village: Front Porch Music Festival to Serenade Iowa City Neighborhood

Happy Summer! It’s time to get together for some singing.

Join us this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 for our monthly all-request sing-along. Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the cozy atmosphere. Read more

On Saturday, May 30, the Skipperlings will be opening for Jennifer Danielson at Uptown Bill’s at 7 p.m. The Skipperlings (formerly known as the Mud Puppies) are a vocal trio of kids who started singing together in the Family Folk Machine. They perform three-part arrangements of folk tunes old and new. Come check them out!

Last November we performed a collection of peace songs in our Peace Will Come concert. The Senior Center does a great job of recording our songs and uploading them so we can enjoy them at a later date: Read more